Luis Echeverría Alvarez has died at the age of 100. You’d think that this former president of Mexico lived a good century. But you’d be wrong. If you want to consider what’s wrong with Mexico today, a lot of it is at least partially the...
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A view of the main entrance to the General Motors assembly plant in the city of Silao, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss.
The murder by a combination of politicians and gangs of 43 students training to be teachers in 2014 rocked Mexico to its core. To millions of Mexicans, it was the.
On October 2, 1968, the Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution's ideals. The Mexican Revolution always had a complicated relationship with radicalism. Comprising leaders with...
Gabriela Soto Laveaga has an essay in the Post on one of my hobbyhorses: why all Americans need to have an understanding of Mexican history. The recent backlash over a new.
Well this is certainly interesting: Every now and then, there is something new under the sun. This month, it’s a pro-worker trade policy—a first for the federal government in at.
Supposedly, revised NAFTA gives labor groups some power to enforce regulations. I am extremely skeptical this will happen in reality. We are all about to find out. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. and other groups filed a complaint with the Biden administration on Monday over claims of labor...
The utter failure at all things that is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is really coming to light as true COVID death rates come out of the country. Mexico’s government acknowledged.
We don't often think of Afro-Mexicans, but they very much exist, especially along both the Gulf and Pacific coasts. And they face significant discrimination within a quite racist Mexico. That.
Check out my latest interview with authors of recent books. I spoke with Christy Thornton of Johns Hopkins University, author of the brand new book Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. She basically asks what happens if we look at...
Underground Railroad routes The Underground Railroad was not just taking slaves to Canada. There was a southern version too, heading down through Texas and into Mexico. Here's a good story.
When racists talk about "protecting our borders" and stopping immigrants from coming to the U.S., it's the biggest act of intentional self-denial and ignorance in history. Nearly every reason for.